{"quotes":[{"text":"I am young now and can look upon my body and soul with pride. But it will be mangled soon, and later it will begin to disintegrate, and then I shall die, and die conclusively. How can we face such a fact, and not live in fear?","author":"Jack Kerouac","tags":["atop-an-underwood","beat","death-and-dying","early-stories-and-other-writings","fear-of-death","fleeting-life","jack-kerouac","prose","youth-is-temporary"],"id":44062,"author_id":"Jack+Kerouac"},{"text":"The Grim Reaper isn't grim at all; he's a life-saver. He isn't grim because he isn't anything. . . . He is nothing. And nothing is a hell of a lot better than anything. So long, boys.","author":"Jack Kerouac","tags":["atop-an-underwood","autobiography","beat","jack-kerouac","memoir","prose","prose-poetry","short-stories"],"id":79802,"author_id":"Jack+Kerouac"},{"text":"Shared emotions experienced by two souls,empathy on unequivocal level which Davey believed would change entire species of mankind if only secret of empathy could be telepathically shared with humanity,one soul after another, until every soul understood true meaning of love.","author":"Christina Westover","tags":["beatnik","chakras","christina-westover","empathy","fiction","humanity","jack-kerouac","love","photography","poetry","san-francisco","soul","telepathy"],"id":105368,"author_id":"Christina+Westover"},{"text":"A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a vision, or a memory, which are involuntary, you're not interested or even involved.","author":"Jack Kerouac","tags":["haunted","jack-kerouac","memory","vision","writer","writing"],"id":121916,"author_id":"Jack+Kerouac"},{"text":"I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.","author":"Jack Kerouac","tags":["jack-kerouac","on-the-road","stars"],"id":184451,"author_id":"Jack+Kerouac"},{"text":"It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge there’s no use flaunting on that level, the level of the ‘public’, a kind of beatness – I mean, being right down to it, to ourselves, because we all really know where we are – and a weariness with all the forms, all the conventions of the world … It’s something like that. So I guess you might say we’re a beat generation.","author":"Jack Kerouac","tags":["beat","beat-generation","jack-kerouac","mind","self","self-awareness","society","truth"],"id":195499,"author_id":"Jack+Kerouac"},{"text":"I clearly saw the skeleton underneathall this show of personalitywhat is left of a manand all his pride but bones?","author":"Jack Kerouac","tags":["bones","jack-kerouac","pride","skeleton"],"id":215854,"author_id":"Jack+Kerouac"},{"text":"I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man 'with a locomotive in his chest, and that's a fact,' not the only youth with a million hungers and not one of them appeasable, not the only one who is lonely among multitudes, and does not know why.","author":"Jack Kerouac","tags":["albert-halper","atop-an-underwood","beat","inspirational","jack-kerouac","locomotive","loneliness","prose","young-writers"],"id":232269,"author_id":"Jack+Kerouac"},{"text":"Hateful bitch of a world, it wouldn't ever last.","author":"Jack Kerouac","tags":["bitch","book-of-sketches","hate","jack-kerouac","world"],"id":275669,"author_id":"Jack+Kerouac"},{"text":"A poet is a blind optimist.The world is against him formany reasons. But thepoet persists. He believesthat he is on the right track,no matter what any of his fellow men say. In hiseternal search for truth, thepoet is alone.He tries to be timeless in a society built on time.","author":"Jack Kerouac","tags":["atop-an-underwood","beat","early-stories-and-other-writings","jack-kerouac","optimist","prose-poetry","society","the-poet","timeless"],"id":291667,"author_id":"Jack+Kerouac"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}